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I am the place in which something has occurred.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.

[Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world ... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it.

I can't help thinking that science would be more appealing if it had no practical use.

The wise man is not he who gives the right answers; he is the one who asks the right questions.

These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain.

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

I hate travelling and explorers. Yet here I am proposing to tell the story of my expeditions.

All the essentials of humanity's artistic treasures can be found in New York.

Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

I hate travelling and explorers

Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

Animals are good to think with.

Natural man did not precede society, nor is he outside it.

Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.

Nor must we forget that in science there are no final truths.